Productive Problem Finding
This resource developed by Distinguished Fellow alumnus Frank LaBanca is designed to introduce “problem finding” as a tool for student-centered learning. When students look and find problems, they engage in a creative process to develop and define an idea for a study. Through problem-finding, students set objectives, define purposes, decide what is interesting and ultimately… Read More ›
Get Your Classroom Thinking! Deeper Learning Strategies for Any Classroom, Grades 6–12
This webinar will focus on helping students learn to use summarization in engaging ways to promote deeper learning, by identifying salient information and structuring it for long-term meaning, retention, and application. Dedra Stafford, coauthor with Rick Wormeli of the book Summarization in Any Subject: 60 Innovative, Tech-Infused Strategies for Deeper Student Learning, will give participants a… Read More ›
4 Things you Should Know about Digital Portfolios
This article provides a quick overview of the components of student-centered digital portfolios. It highlights four takeaways, including the importance of focusing on the learning process and putting students in the drivers seat. This short article would be a good piece to spark a discussion with staff around digital portfolios for schools looking to implement… Read More ›
Visual Teaching Ideas to Spark Creative Thinking in Math
This article looks at ways to spark creativity and deep thinking in math classes. The author, a veteran educator and author, focuses on the use of images to spark deep thinking. Using images can help all types of learners access math as humans naturally seek to understand patterns and relationships. He also discusses how images… Read More ›
Deeper Learning and Diffusion of Innovation and Scaled Impact of New Hampshire’s Work-Study Practices
Through its Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) initiative, New Hampshire offers innovative, successful approaches in competency-based and deeper learning practices, and is a model for other states to follow. JFF is partnering with the New Hampshire Learning Initiative, the New Hampshire Department of Education, and the Center for Innovation in Education to understand how… Read More ›
Critical Civic Inquiry: Student-Centered Learning
The study has concluded. Read about their data collection, findings and implications for educators and counselors in the field. Learn More Led by Rowan University and University of Colorado, this study investigated two areas of student-centered learning: “How students can be supported to take “ownership” of their learning” and “How learning can occur anytime, anywhere.”… Read More ›
Culturally Responsive Mastery-Based Education Research Project
The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools at New York University (NYU Metro) and the Mastery Collaborative are conducting the Culturally Responsive Mastery-Based Education Research Project (CR-MBE) to understand how culturally responsive mastery-based practices influence historically marginalized students’ learning capacities, school engagement and academic outcomes. Learning capacities refer to mindsets,… Read More ›
Leveraging the Power of Improvement Networks to Spread Lesson Study
The High Tech High Graduate School of Education, in partnership with three Southern California school districts, will leverage lesson study within a networked improvement community (NIC) to explore how student-centered instruction and assessment strategies impact student mathematical understanding and achievement, particularly for Latinx and African American students. NICs, with their emphasis on scale and spread,… Read More ›
Leadership for Mobile Learning: Creating a Shared Vision
Schools and districts around the country are implementing technology initiatives. However, without a coherent, shared vision for implementation, these project may note deliver the desired impact or worse, simply fail. This edWebinar features district leaders discussing what it takes to successfully deploy, implement and sustain a shared commitment to mobile learning. There will be time… Read More ›
How to Move From Digital Substitution to ‘Deeper Learning
This EdSurge On Air podcast features a discussion with Scott McLeod, Associate Professor of Education Leadership at the University of Colorado in Denver and author of Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning. He discusses how teachers can ensure they are using technology to support deeper learning and move to more student-centered teaching practices. He focuses on… Read More ›
MetaRubric Game
This game was designed to help teachers and future teachers learn how to design and use rubrics to assess project-based and maker-centered learning. The game, which takes 1-2 hours to complete, is an excellent professional development exercise. In addition to teaching key information about quality rubrics, it is in itself and example of how assessment… Read More ›
Student Podcast Challenge
In their first student podcast competition, National Public Radio invites students around the country to create a podcast. Students should put together a podcast with your class or extracurricular group and submit it with help from a teacher. Each podcast should be between three and 12 minutes long. The winning podcast submissions will be featured in segments on Morning Edition and All Things… Read More ›